Never stop reading. (Content originally posted at Blogger.)
Watches are traditional retirement gifts. I could also see golf club memberships, books, and commemorative plaques. My Library gave our previous director a gift basket when he retired. Possibly the least expected retirement gift one could ever receive is a baby elephant. This is Inspector Ashwin Chopra’s retirement gift from his uncle on his last day with Mumbai’s police force in Vaseem Khan’s debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra. As Chopra departs for his last day of work, he leaves to the sounds of an imbroglio between his wife and the self-appointed dictator of his apartment complex over the elephant...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.